Alma
1872 October 31Dudley Post Office established
1873 March 7Alma Post Office established
1874 October 5Vigilantes run hoodlum Jack Reynolds out of Alma
1879 October 29Drunken Keogh shoots bystander in Alma bar
1879 January 25Cicero Simms (later hanged in Fairplay) kills John Johnson
1881 March 21Alma Town Hall burns down
1915 February 4Hotel, church and mine office destroyed by fire
1917 January 7Eighteen Alma buildings burn
1917 October 10Four businesses and Post Office burn
1928 May 15Alma School burns
1934 July 8Bank of Alma is robbed
1992World's largest Rhodochrosite is found in Sweet Home Mine
2002 April 17Rhodochrosite becomes Colorado State mineral
Bailey
1871 September 16Elizabeth Entriken land claim
1872 April 2William Bailey land claim
1876 November 20Bailey Post Office established
1880 June 9Estabrook Post Office established
1881 June 9Bailey plat filed
1882 June 1Peter Horn land filing
1902 June 5Insmont Post Office established
1909 August 9 Bailey Flood
1936 December 24Criminal killed in Bailey
1937 April 11Helen McGraw films last train
1940 October 12Kiowa Lodge in Bailey burns
1999 December 31Eric Eos, Sawmill owner, dies
2000 June 12Hi Meadow fire burns
2001 June 4Reggie's Restaurant burns
2002 April 23Snaking fire begins
2002 June 8Hayman fire begins
2009 March 13Cutthroat Cafe burns, reopens four months later on July 4
Buckskin Joe
1860Gold Discovered by J. M. Higginbotham (Buckskin Joe)
1861Phillips Lode struck
1861H.A.W. Tabor open grocery Store
1861 November 14Buckskin Joe Post Office established
1862 January 7County Seat moved from Tarryall City to Buckskin Joe
1874 July 15Hall Valley smelter reported ready for operation.
1874 August 10Hall Valley Post Office Established
1874 December 26Telegraph line is reported completed to Hall Valley smelter
1882 November 28Boiler blasts kills Julius Gomer at Hall Valley Sawmill
Como
1864 July 26Reynolds Gang robs stage near McLaughlin Ranch
1879 June 21Train reaches Como
1879 July 23Como Post Office established
1879 November 11E.L. Thayer, a Chinese labor contractor, badly beaten by Como Italians
1881 January 1Gilman Hotel Opens
1894 June 2Streetre sentenced to hang for killing Como Marshall Cook
1896 NovemberGilman Hotel burns to the ground
1899 September 7Fireman Clayton dies in a runaway train on Boreas Pass
1928 March 6Engineer J.P. Nichols dies in train wreck near Como
1935 March 25Wood section of Como Roundhouse burns
1936 January 21Boreas Pass train wreck
1937 April 11Last train leaves Como
Dake
1883 May 23Dake Post Office established
1883 - 1893Dake produces over 1,000,000 tons of charcoal per year
Fairplay
1860 December 31Fairplay gets oldest water right
1863 April 29 Bodies of 5 of 6 men murdered by Espinosa brothers buried
1864 June 26Reynolds Gang robs stage
1868 August 27Schuler Colfax (Future Vice President) makes pilgrimage up Mt. Lincoln
1869 February 26South Park City (Fairplay) incorporated
1873 June 26Most of Fairplay burns
1874 June 18South Park City Post Office established
1874 September 20Fairplay Masons reported to have meeting on Mt. Lincoln
1874 November 21Fairplay Courthouse completed
1874 November 28Telegraph line from Denver to Fairplay nearly completed
1875 October 13Attempted break-in at Fairplay Bank
1879 February 20First issue of The Fairplay Flume
1879 April 1John Hoover kills Tom bennett in Fairplay
1880 April 28John Hoover lynched from Courthouse window
1880 July 23Hundreds see murderer Cicero Simms hanged
1881 June 1112 year old M. Harris drowns on flume
1882 October 10Mosquito Gulch robbery attempt
1882 October 12Three die in train wreck near Park City
1883 February 17Quarantine law issue for smallpox
1883 November 22Old Mose (grizzly bear) kills J. Radcliff
1884 March 19Jail break by murderer Byard
1913 August 21Maria Decker robbed and murdered at Hay Ranch
1914 January 30Ah Hut, Last Chance miner, dies near Fairplay
1941 - 1960Snowstorm Dredge operates between Fairplay and Alma
1966 August 7New Park County Hospital Opens (McNamara Building)
Garo
1862Adolph Guraud homestead
1870Trading Post established
1879Denver & South Park Railroad arrives
1880 June 29Garo Post Office established
1884 September 25Garo Depot burns
Grant
1871 May 16 Grant Post Office established
1880 November 25Grant Roundhouse burns
1962 January 6Roberts Tunnel completed
King
1879 September 11100 tons of coal produced a day
1884 April 14King Post Office established
1893 January 2525 miners killed in explosion
1894 September 3Saloon in King robbed
Jefferson
1863 May 11Abram Shoup murdered by Espinosa brothers near Kenosha Pass
1874 July 24Zach Taylor shoots Indian at Kenosha House
1879 May 19Railroad reaches Kenosha Pass
1879 October 3Jefferson Post Office established
1903 July 27Jefferson Town Hall burns
1936 July 25Engineer McCowan dies in runaway train wreck on Kenosha Pass
Red Hill
1880 July 19Red Hill Stage Stop robbed by Reynolds Gang
18801000 pounds of powder explodes killing one, injuring four and destroying four buildings
1863-1864Four men murdered by Espinosa brothers who want to kill as many Anglos as they can
Shawnee
1872 December 12Slaght grows 40,000 pound potato crop
1900 April 19Shawnee Post Office established
1929 October 29Shawnee Water Consumers Association founded
1943 September 30B-24 Bomber crashes on Mt. Logan above Santa Maria, eleven men perished, one survives
1971Denver Water board rechannels the North Fork of the South Platte
1974 JulyLast cattle drive up Colorado 285
1977USFS aquires Albert Gould Ranch
1989Recall of Park County Commissioners
2008 August 15Shawnee National Historic District designation
Webster
1877 May 7Webster Post Office established
1879 October 23Gambler Red Hanley kills William Cochran
1880Joseph and James Lamping started charcoal kilns
1885 July 3J.J. Smith kills J.W. Crow